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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-06-11, Page 6Jim 11 th, 194$, A Woman’s Workshop MmnwwmwtywMMty “HI NEIGHBOR!” At sun-up this morning someone across the back Jut called, “John, can I borrow your shovel?” What a world of neighborly comfort those words intimated. What a priceless privilege, in this war-torn world, to still he living in the quiet hominess of a place where friends may borrow and lend and swap vegetables over the back fence, where we share our choicest blooms and offer unhindered all that boring advice of which we all possess so generous a supply. We have heard a good many peevish comments on small-town, ways, It is said that everyone knows all about his neighbor’s, affairs and nothing can be considered as personal business, Mavbe, but that community interest has its good side, as most of us have found out in times of trouble, Then neighborly sympathy wraps us round with a garment of comfort that can temper many a chill wind of sorrow and adversity.—The Missus This week I leave the purely de­ scriptive to turn to a discussion of a subject that is of particular interest at the present time, and especially to Canadians. What is the Royal Canadian Air Force doing? Before I flew to England, I had the advantage of visiting many of the air training camps in Ontario. Before that, I had been up in a num­ ber of planes of quite a wide var­ iety of types, starting as far back as 1919, and including everything little TOWNS VICTORY GARRENS Life's thrilling in a city; there’s So much to hear and see— Fine churches, plays and operas, Bright lights and gaiety; But passing faces all are strange— You feel an alien guest— Ah, if you’re sad or lonely, then A little town is best, For in the little country towns . Yqur friends are everywhere, And high and low, and old and young, The common interests share. And if you are in trouble, they Come flocking to your Kind hands outstretched you aid; Their kind hearts, too, door, to bring are sore. say when you meet, And smiling children stop their play To greet you in the street. It may be little towns are slow, But they are quick to see That what is needed most in life Are friends—and sympathy. —Olive Anderson Snyder * * * FLOWERS AND WEEDS In little towns the people “Godd-morning” The real summer pageant begins now. Mustard and buttercup side by side with purple clover, ox-eye daisy and wind-flower, adding their white to the color scheme. See the vetch; it billows up out of the deep grass like green breakers crested with purple foam. With its neighboring beautiful bouquets, no mistakes in her color and form, favorite color, next, so these two colors in varying tones are the predominant ones all through the warm season, red shades only present to break monotony. are The Tm tired Have you noticed that they all Victory gardens this year? man of the house says: before I’ve started, all worn out with planning the thing. Before this Victory idea came along I al­ ways grew things wonderfully well. Years ago I’d plant out a few to­ matoes and some rows of carrots and get results, but this year all I have is a waste basket full of paper salvage and a headache.” The man who does the hard work wants to know what a fellow is to do with radishes that are up before the Government booklets say they should be, AND STILL THE WONDER GROWS In low bowls, daisies it makes Nature makes combinations of Blue is the bees’ and yellow comes The story of the peanut reads like a romance, a romance evolved from the long studies and careful experi­ ments of the old Negro scientist, Dr. Carver of Tuskegee Institute, Ala­ bama. The land of his locality was suited to the growing of the pea­ nut but no market could be found for the crop. So Dr, Carver set about to create marketable products, using the versatile peanut as a base. He now shows 3 00 of these pro­ ducts. Some of these are milk, on which the cream rises, buttermilk, cheese, ice cream mix, substitute coffee, cocoa, pickle oils, face lo­ tion, shaving cream, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber, wood-stains, paints, axle-grease, linoleum, soap, ink, insulated rugs. The sweet pota- made to furnish almost dyes, lard, stock food, boards and to has been as many products under the clever experiments of the old Doctor. * * * ARMY BUTTER RESISTS HEAT MALTA the_ the".is the States offThe tiny island of Malta, just the toe of*the Italian boot and so very present in the news each day has had a long history. From time immemorial she has held the posi­ tion that she still occupies, as a police station .in the central Medi­ terranean. It was visited by the ancient Phoenician traders, who, left as a legacy the peculiarities of the Maltese tongue as spoken today. The ships of old Carthage made it a port-of-call, and in later days it came under the sway of Imperial Rome. During the crusades it was ■occupied by the Knights of St. John, who were later known as the Knights Of Malta and took as theii’ ensign the Maltese Cross. They' introduc­ ed into the island the Roman 'Cath­ olic faith. Since passing into Brit­ ish possession it has been consider­ ed a most important station for the fleet, due to its strategic position. Since Italy entered the war, Malta has averaged ‘three air raids a day. It was at first considered to be in­ defensible but the exploits of a few airmen in piloting some borrowed planes, showed what could be done, and to date the island has stood up to a more continual and concen­ trated air bombardment than any place on record. The rock of which the island is composed is soft’ and easily worked, so that each home has its private shelter, where do­ mestic life can be carried on and even schoolwork continued. Ow­ ing to the damage from bombing it is no longer considered a safe anchorage for the fleet, but vessels slip in at night for repairs and con­ voys continue to arrive with food and ammunition for •the beleagured island. Malta has the unique dis­ tinction of the George recall, is a conspicuous A new kind of butter, guaranteed to remain solid in temperatures up to 114 degrees Fahrenheit, latest contribution in United culinary experimentation. “This butter keeps almost finitely without refrigeration, ing from our tests to date, good quality dairy butter stabilized through the addition of a small amount of hardened fat. We have kept some of it for three months at 110 degrees of heat and it is still all right and tastes good.” It is said that it is just as nutri­ tious as ordinary butter and, ex­ cept for the fact that it has to be chewed slightly when eaten, since ordinary body temperatures won’t melt it, can’t be distinguished from the original. The advantages of the new but­ ter were shown when an experimen­ tal batch Of it was shipped at or­ dinary temperatures to the Phillip- j pines, back through the Panama Canal, thence to New York, from New York to Chicago, and arrived as good as when it left.[ _ * * * Cultivate the great art of leaving •people alone, even those you think you have a right to direct in minutest particular.* * * kettle and pan on inde- judg- It is the having been awarded Medal, which, you will mark of distinction for bravery among civilians, the saner, softer politicsWhen shall Whereof we dream, have sway in each proud land, And patriotism, grown God-like, scorn to stand Bond-slave to realms, but earth and seas? circle * * ♦ * * De ** # * * # ^ * * # KITCHEN KINKS local dealer gave this * * » * * * *** ♦ ♦ * tip:A When you buy new flannelette .sheets, stitch with the sewing* machine through the blanket* stitching that finished the ends. If the stitches are torn or break the machining keeps it from rUiihing. '* 4>■ * < ♦' ♦ < < * Page 0THE EXETER There is no room for a and he isn’t a pilot. The only 37 feet across the 30 feet in length—-a tiny It was up to 25 out, and sec- are Air Force from the rest of the R.A.F. This has brought both praise and condemnation to Hon, C. G. Power from Canadian papers, depending upon whethen. they be* long to the ultra-loyal group or not. But it isn’t’ a matter of “loyalty”, but of practical considerations. When I was in England, there were some 18 all-Canadian squadrons, from a veteran of the last war to an the numbers starting at f,406”. Since autogiro. As long ago as 1923 I (then, the number has been increas- flew to James " ' .... • Vimy bombing type as that in stop flight was lantic. For not surprising that I was interested in the Air Force overseas. During my stay in England, I had many opportunities to meet members of the R.C.A.F. from Air Commo­ dore F. L. Stevenson down. The Air Commodore gave a party one afternoon at the Royal Automobile Club, a swanky place on Pall Mall, and he invited ’the leaders of all Canadian squadrons in England. Most of them were able to come and I had a chance to listen to them discuss their adventures. Several had been decorated by the King for conspicuous service. Often I see familiar faces in looking over photo­ graphs in the newspapers. Bay in a Vickers plane of the same which the first non­ made across the At- that reason, it was Is Yours! Are you taking advantage of it? It is intended' primarily, for the individual to dis pose of the things he wishes to sell or to. secure the things he desires. Read the Classified Directory tonight-—Note how other people are taking advantage of it. Note all the different classifications covered—Surely you must have something you wish to sell; some­ thing you wish to buy; some service you have' to offer; real estate for rent or sale; or some an­ nouncement you wish to make in the special notice column—Lost, found and strayed—Help wanted or situation wanted—We doubt if there is a single person who cannot profit from the use of the- Want-ad service. By BVgU Templin There has recently been some dis- would have insisted that human be- cussion in Parliament about separat-1 ings couldn't stand a speed like ing the Canadians overseas in the]that. It is said that the designer vaet nf of the Hurricane has never been up in one. passenger, Spitfire is wings and plane compared to the bombers. The weakness of these fighters is that they can remain in the air only three hours and a half, which gives them a range of 1260 miles or so, but does not allow them to protect the bombers all the way to Germany and back. Some machines of the Fighter r Command have two or more in the crew. The Boulton Paul Defiant is no larger than the Spitfire, but it has a gun turret with a gunner as the second member of the crew, At least one of the faster bombers, the Bristol Blenheim, is used as a fighter. The Coastal Command is in charge of patrol work around the coasts, the search for enemy craft on and ■under* the water, the convoying of ships for the last part of the jour­ ney to Britain, and similar tasks, Land planes are used for’ the most part. The Avro Ansons, now used almost entirely foi* training and quite familiar ovei’ our Canadian --. AMA VYMAXA. scientists They are now outdated, but the n first plane I saw in the English air (after leaving the airport where I landed), was an Avro Anson. The favorite plane of the Coastal Com­ mand now seems to be the Ameri- •can4built Lockheed Hudson, This is much like the trans-Canada pas­ senger planes (which are made by the same firm.) They are flown across the Atlantic by the Ferry Command. The Bristol Beaufort, a torpedo bomber, was in use by the Coastal Command, as well as the Blenheim. The R.A.F. Bomber Command is the busy division now and has be­ come quite aggressive, Larger and ■ larger bombers are being used to carry bigger loads. Changes have been so rapid that the favorite types of bombing planes last Octo­ ber are now more or less out of date. Their places are taken by the huge Halifax, Sterling and other ■types, which were just -coming into, use when I was in England. I did not see either of these bombing planes, though I almost had a trip through the Halifax factory. Had I been there another day or two, I '•might have made it. One of the largest and most popu­ lar bombers up to last Fall was Wellington. Those who saw moving picture, 'Target for night,” know what it looks like, is a huge machine, with a wing span of nearly 90 feet and the body is “fat” in ajp- to the ex­ number of ed considerably. when I last saw figures given but that was some time ago, changes since have been kept ret, A great many Canadians in other R.A.F. units. There seem­ ed to be some difference of opin­ ion among the officers overseas as to whether the Canadians were bet­ ter mixed in with the R.A.F, or in separate squadrons. The R.A.F. is (or was) divided into “Commands”, depending on the work done by the various types of aircraft. The Fighter Command us­ es the small fighting planes, such as the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane, both of them one-seater machines with motors of about one thousand horsepower, ______ driving them aT speeds up to six towns, were originally used almost miles a. minute. That seems incred- * entirely for Coastal Command work, iible. Not so Ion I the the To- It Prices are so reasonable You will be surprised how really inexpensive this service is. Classified ads such as For Sale, For Rent, Wanted etc. are V/z cents per word for the first insertion and 1 cent per word for succeeding insertions. Minimum charge is 25c per insertion. If replies are to be delivered to the Times-Advocate office an extra charge of 10c is added. If it’s Speed, Low Cost Action you want, use the Times- Advocate Classified Directory. CLASSIFIEDS ACCEPTED TILL NOON WEDNESDAYS Phone 31w You will get best results both in quality and quantity if you csr^fuliy follow these simple directions? X Scald owt the teapot to warm it 2* Use a level teaspoonful of tea for each cup of tea to be served. •3L Use the exact amount of FRESH water you require and see that it is BOILING FURIOUSLY before you pour jt into the pot FIVE MINUTES something newer in the meantime. The Fleet Air Arm is attached to the Navy. I had no contact with it. The -Canadian editors spent one evening at a Bomber station up in the central part of the East Coast of England. If gave me something of a thrill to drive along the Great North Road. The name itself is interesting, but the thrill came from ■memories of the book, “The Good Companions” and from passing through the Robin Hood country. It seemed that every ■utes that famous road airdrome of the Bomber There was no particular concealment from the road, what­ ever there may have been from the air. Many different types of bomb­ ers were to be seen out in the open. The driver of our automobile had a son in the Bomber Command. He had never visited his station but had me keep a lookout after we passed a Certain town, to see the first Wellingtons, and was when we found the he didn’t suggest few min- passed an Command, attempt at it ter months. I recall meals af- of six or seven is unrationed and find it anywhere, of each kind of arous- It turned, out to first ones There was Sausages come in ’drome using greatly pleased place, though stopping. Well, up the Cession of cars home of Sir Isaac Newton, with his statue in the square, and on out towards the coast, along winding roads, following a motorcycle guide. The fields were full of plane traps— always a sign that one is approach­ ing a place of importance. There was a tiny hamlet at last, and three or four miles beyond that, down a road that' wasn’t -much more than ■a lane, bordered by hedges, we came to the bomber station. The main buildings were of new red brick. Beside the door, a guide showed me the marks where mach­ ine gun bullets had spattered on the wall from' German guns. One or two had. been killed but the chief re­ gret of my guide was that the Hun plane had got safely away. In the hangars nearby were the big bombers, Handley Page Hamp- •dens. The Hampden is deceptive in its appearance, particularly from the front. The body is extremely narrow, only one-man wide, while it tapers off in a long, narrow line •to the tail. It is hard to believe that it carries a crew of four and weighs more than nine-tons when it is loaded. The wing spread is about 70 feet. There are two air-cooled motors and twin tails. For a bomb­ er, it has a high speed of .265 miles an hour, or over four miles a min­ ute. and it can stay in the air for eight hours and a half, flying over 1700 miles. The living quarters were comfort­ able, and the lounge room where We were greeted might be called lux­ urious. Over the mantel at one end was a big painting of Mr. Handley Page himself. There were chester­ fields and padded chairs and a radio. A few Canadians were among the officers, the only one from around this part of Ontario being Pilot Of­ ficer J. G. Spier, of Brussels, On­ tario. The Station Commander was Group Captain,,Boothman. He didn’t tell us anything about himself, some of the other officers did. raced in the famous Schneider races more than ten years ago won the cup races were tiny planes, events, they their toes, with the result that the cup nearly always stayed in Britain. Strangely enough, this race pro­ bably saved Britain from destruc­ tion in 1940 and 1941. They kept British firms building the fastest and finest planes, and the Spitfires and Hurricanes, particularly the fo'rmer, are adaptations of the rac­ ing planes of Schneider Cup days. I ate that night ih the officers' mess at this R.A.F. station, and brought away the menu. The sup­ per was ‘light and the foods were the familiar foods of Wartime Eng­ land, but on the other side of the road, our little pro­ passed through the paper, put into But the dessert and th©over 60 feet long, and pearance, in contrast treme leanness of a other bombers. When it is loaded it weighs over 13 tons. The body is of an odd. basket-work construction, said to give great strength, and the chief characteristic is the. lattice­ work windows. Other bombers were the Blen­ heim, the Bolingbroke, the Hamp­ den, the Whitley, and several oth­ ers whose names don’t come read­ ily to mind. The big American bombers, the Consolidated Libera­ tor and the Boeing Flying Fortress were not there in large numbers October and trial raids, them. There is- Command, which hasn't much to do except in training, as its business is to be the eyes of the Army dur­ ing active fighting. It was using the odd, gull-winged Lysander planes. No. 400 Canadian squadron was an Army Co-operation unit. As the Lysander is a fairly old model, it has probably been replaced by for the Pudding had been I did not an Army used only see either in in of Co-operation menu was the luncheon at noon, and it had featured the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding I saw only once in England—and that at the private house of a manufacturer. Here is the evening menu: Kidney Soup Coo-au-Gratin Sausage and Mash Cabbage Trifle ;Stewed Figs and Custard Corfee Cheese Food is important in Britain and is strange how an interval Kidney so one is apt to even in soup, I had a little meat, for the “Coo-au-Gratin” ed my curiosity, be cold sliced bologna with cheese in i-t. That was, I think, my first •encounter with English wartime sausage. I ate them once or twice again, in hotels, just to see if they were all as .bad as the encountered that night, no improvement, three grades, I’m told, and presum* ably these were all of the best grade. The grades are 40, 50 and 60, that being the percentage of meat in them, but I always doubted it. The rest of the percentage is said to be bread, but again I had my doubts. It wasn’t that the sausages tasted bad; they didn’t. They simply didn’t taste at all. They might have been ground up blotting skins and fried, and the coffee were good cheese excellent. But this was the menu noon meal we had missed: Provencale Soup Roas£ Beef and Yorkshire Creamed Potatoes and Cauliflower . Cold Wiltshire Roll Salad Steamed Sultana Roll ■Rice Pudding Stewed Figs Custard The boys at the Bomber stations are under a continual nervous strain. They live among the greatest thrills in the world when they are out on a ! job with the anti-aircraft shells bursting in puffs around them and the need to watch continually for an attach by fighter planes, while looking all the time for their tar­ gets. It had been the intention to have the Canadian editors see the bomb­ ing planes go out, then have a few hours’ sleep, and get up in time to see them come back. It didn’t turn out that way that night. There was a bit of fog and operations -were cancelled. Word had tgone around before we arrived that the flight, was “off” and so tension had relax­ ed. One officer told me that when the boys are all keyed up and then, at the last minute the trip is can­ celled, it’s hard to keep discipline. He said all kinds of stunts are pull­ ed off. One night, a couple of ipil- • ots drove their little Austin car in the front door and around the halls. A V' : Support War. Effort With Work, Money and Blood Ginger Snaps shortening brown sugar baking molasses % % % 1 teaspoon ginger % teaspoon soda Salt Flour to stiffen (about 1 cup) Roll into little balls, press down i baking sheet, bake slowly. Syrup Cookies cup shortening cup syrup (not molasses) tablespoons sugar egg Cup cup cup ....4 ?$z'» 1 1 2 1 % cup sour milk 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in milk % teaspoon salt Vanilla or nutmeg or any favor­ ite flavoring Flour to stiffen enough for rolling 1 cup of raisins or dates may be added If fruit is used, yon will have a sweeter cookie. —o—. Chemistry is playing an increas­ ing part in food conservation. We understand that bakers are soon to bo furnished with an Ingredient de­ veloped by industrial chemists, which will prevent the formation of mould in bread. Due to gas rationing, bread deliveries are likely to be less frequent, and so the mould-inhibitor should ®revent serious wastage, AMONG the several Red Cross Blood Donor Clinics estab­ lished in Canada the one pictured above is unique, The usual clinic is located in a city with volunteer donors drawn from that city’s population but this one is. in the heart of the great Ford plant at Windsor and the donors have all been company employees to date. With a regular staff of doctors and nurses, supplemented by volunteer nurses, the modernly equipped clinic is operated five days a week with an average of 200 donors each week. In addition to giving their blood to the Red Crossj Ford employees conducted their own canvass of the plant in the recent Red Cross drive and 13,722 employees gave more than $67,000 for an average of $4.80, The Ford plant is operating at capacity on war work. but He Cup and himself in 1931, These high-speed tests With and being sporting kept the British on Bilious Attacks Liver Complaint Biliousness is just another name for a dogged or sluggish livet. It is a very common complaint, but can be quickly remedied by stimulating the flow of bile. This softens th© accumulated mass, the poisons ore Carried out Of the system, and the liver and bowels are relieved and toned up.. Milburn’s LaxaTiver Pills quicken and enliven th© sluggish liver,' Open* ing up every channel, by causing a free flow of bil© and thus cleansing the livOr of the dogging impurities. They are small and easy to take, Do not gfipe> weaken or sicken. Th® T. Mitbuni do., Ltd., Toronto, Ont